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2022: Book Review: Conversation between Hassan Ndzovu and Adriaan van Klinken, at the occasion of the launch of the book, Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa, Adriaan van Klinken and Ezra Chitando. London: Hurst & Co, 2021. 

Research Africa Reviews, Vol. 6(1), April, pp. 55-57. 

https://sites.duke.edu/researchafrica/ra-reviews/volume-6-issue-1-april-2022/

2022: Kenya’s Muslims: a divided community with little political clout. The Conversation, August 7, np.

https://theconversation.com/kenyas-muslims-a-divided-community-with-little-political-clout-184436

2021: Film Review: Kenya Christian Queer: Director: Aiwan Obinyan: Executive producer: Adriaan van Klinken. Country: Kenya. Languages: English and Kiswahili. Produced by: AiAi studios. Year: 2020. 20:38 minutes. 

In: Africa Studies Review, Volume 64 , Issue 1 , March 2021 , pp. E35 - E36, 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2020.117

2021: Islam and Sexuality in Kenya. 

Debating Ideas-African Arguments, March 1, np.

https://africanarguments.org/2021/03/islam-and-sexuality-in-kenya/

2020: Book Review: The Sage of Moroni: The Intellectual Biography of Sayyid Omar Abdallah, a forgotten Muslim Public Intellectual. By Mohamed Bakari. Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 2019. pp.i-xii and 1-144.

In: Research Africa Reviews, Vol. 4(2), August 2020, pp. 55-57. (https://sites.duke.edu/researchafrica/ra-reviews/volume-2-issue-2-aug-2020/)

2020: Editorial: Debating Anti-Blackness in the Arab-Muslim World: The Case of Arab-Islamic Slavery.

In: Research Africa Reviews, Vol. 4(2), August 2020, pp. 1-5. (https://sites.duke.edu/researchafrica/ra-reviews/volume-2-issue-2-aug-2020/ )

2020: Women’s stories of breaking the mould as preachers in Kenya. 

The Conversation, April 23, np: https://theconversation.com/womens-stories-of-breaking-the-mould-as-muslim-preachers-in-kenya-136689

2019: Book Review: Counterterrorism Law and Practice in the East African. By Christopher E. Bailey. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 319 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-38989-2.

In Research Africa Reviews, Vol. 3(3), December 2018, pp. 26-28 (https://sites.duke.edu/researchafrica/ra-reviews/volume-3-issue-3-dec-19/)

2018: Book Review: Africa at the Crossroads: Theorising Fundamentalism in the 21st Century. By Artwell Nhemachena and Munyaradzi Mawere (eds). Mankon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2017. 330 pp. ISBN: 9956764086. 

In: Research Africa Reviews, Vol. 2(2), August 2018, pp. 23-25 (https://sites.duke.edu/researchafrica/ra-reviews/volume-2-issue-2-august-2018/)

2018. The preacher who laid the ground for violent jihadi ideology in Kenya. 

The Conversation.https://theconversation.com/the-preacher-who-laid-the-ground-for-violent-jihadi-ideology-in-kenya-106712?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=facebookbutton&fbclid=IwAR1rwRx7gWj4Zh1zeLxfQ87718uQoWSG9kRqVGcDYfoRSt33dZHJ3G9rHmY

2017: Book Review: Ethnicity, Democracy and Citizenship in Africa: Political Marginalization of Kenya’s Nubians: By Samantha Balaton-Chrimes. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2015. pp. 188. 

In: The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 55, Issue 1, March 2017, pp. 168-170

2016: Book Review: Christianity, Islam, and Liberal Democracy: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa. By Robert A. Dowd. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. viii +224 pp. 

In: Perspective in Politics, Vol. 14/No. 3, September 2016, pp. 897-898.

2015: Book Review: Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation, and Social Change. By Ousseina D. Alidou. Madison, Wisconsin: The Wisconsin University Press, 2013. Xiii +225 pp. 

In: Journal of African History, Vol. 56, Issue 3, November 2015, pp. 487-488.

2015. The case of Kadhi courts in a secular Kenya.

Horn of Africa Bullentin.http://life-peace.org/hab/the-case-of-kadhi-courts-in-a-secular-kenya/

Muslims Relations in the Politics of Nationalism and Secessionism in Kenya. 

In: PAS Working Papers. Number 18. Northwestern University. 2009. 1-16 pp.